Word: gulag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...People's Deputies as a tribune to attack him for accumulating too much personal power. "There are no guarantees that a Stalinist will not succeed Gorbachev," he warned. The release of political prisoners motivated him to call ever more insistently for the liberation of those still in the Gulag. He himself was elected to the new People's Congress, but he continued to battle for the multiparty system he knew was indispensable if true democracy was ever to come to his homeland. Andrei Sakharov did not live to see freedom flower completely, but if that day ever does come...
INTERVIEW: Far away from the Gulag Archipelago, a Russian expatriate and sage in Vermont...
While sources went uncultivated and leaks dried up, the capital's best reporters were caught by other stories, like allegations against former Attorney General Ed Meese and the Iran-contra scandal. HUD remained the gulag of Washington journalism, a backwater with an obscure chief administrator they dubbed "Silent Sam" Pierce. There was a distinct lack of glitz and glamour about the HUD beat. "We were looking elsewhere," explains syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. "We don't have enough eyes to look at HUD. The very name HUD says dullness, dullness, dullness...
...worst prospect for both U.S. business and strategic interests would be for hard-liners to win the power struggle and launch a massive crackdown, rounding up dissident students and workers by the tens of thousands and shipping them off to the Chinese Gulag, a little-known but long-established system of political prisons. "Then all the linkages will snap," says a State Department official. That is exactly what some policymakers fear is about to happen, and they see little that the U.S. can do to head it off. Says a White House official: "The U.S. has no influence over...
...archenemy, can be portrayed with some sympathy. Excerpts from Let History Judge, a scathing work that historian Roy Medvedev published in the West in 1971, have begun appearing in the Soviet press, and the entire book is scheduled for publication late this year. The book argues that the Gulag's supposed labor camps were often really death camps set up by Stalin to kill prisoners through hard labor, starvation rations, harsh climate and lack of medical attention. Medvedev is also speaking out through interviews. In one, he put the number of Stalin's victims at 40 million, of whom...